π’₯𝒾𝓃𝒻𝒢 β„‹π“Šπ’Άπ“ƒβ„Š      

✨Bonjour, I am a Ph.D. student in the Department of Computer Science, University of Rochester (UR), advised by Prof. Jiebo Luo.

I aim at building multimodal interactive AI systems that can not only ground, reason and generate over the external world signals, to understand human language, but also assist humans in decision-making and efficiently solving social concerns, e.g., robot, medical. As steps towards this goal, my research interests include but are not limited to multimodal understanding, multimodal generation and multimodal foundation model post-training.

Prior to that, I got my master's degree from Peking University (PKU) in 2023, advised by Prof. Li Yuan and Prof. Jie Chen. And I obtained the honored bachelor's degree from University of Electronic Science and Technology of China (UESTC) in 2020.

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Winter 2024, Puerto Rico✨

News

  • [2025/04]    1 paper (MagicTime) is accepted by TPAMI 2025.
  • [2025/03]    1 paper (AR-Visual Survey) is accepted by TMLR 2025.
  • [2025/02]    1 paper (ConsisID) is accepted by CVPR 2025.
  • [2025/01]    2 papers (1 Poster and 1 Spotlight) are accepted by ICLR 2025.
  • [2025/01]    1 paper (Medical LLM Survey) is accepted by Nature Reviews Bioengineering 2025.
  • [2025/01]    Started the research internship at Google, USA, supervised by Jiageng Zhang and Dr. Eric Li.
  • [2024/12]    Happy New YearπŸ₯³! 1 paper (PromptLLM) is accepted by TPAMI 2025.
  • [2024/12]    1 paper is accepted by AAAI 2025.
  • [2024/12]    1 short paper is accepted by COLING 2025.
  • [2024/11]    1 paper is accepted by ACM Transactions on Intelligence Systems and Technology (TIST) 2024.
  • [2024/11]    Winter is coming❄️! 1 paper is accepted by npj Digital Medicine (Impact Factor: 15.357).
  • [2024/11]    1 survey is accepted by CAAI Transactions on Intelligence Technology (Impact Factor: 8.4), which aims at promoting camouflaged object detection and beyond tasks: GitHub Repo stars Awesome Concealed Object Segmentation.
  • [2024/10]    πŸ”₯πŸ”₯πŸ”₯ We release a GitHub repository and survey aim at promoting the application of autoregressive models in vision domain: GitHub Repo stars Awesome Autoregressive Models in Vision.
  • [2024/09]    1 paper (Spotlight) is accepted by NeurIPS 2024 Datasets & Benchmarks Track.
  • [2024/09]    1 paper is accepted by EMNLP 2024 Findings.
  • [2024/06]   πŸ”₯πŸ”₯πŸ”₯ We are excited to present π‚π‘π«π¨π§π¨πŒπšπ π’πœ-𝐁𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐑, a benchmark for metamorphic evaluation of text-to-video generation, which provides valuable insights for T2V models selection. GitHub Repo stars
  • [2024/05]    Started the research internship at ByteDance Seed, Bellevue, USA, supervised by Quanzeng You & Yongfei Liu & Jianbo Yuan.
  • [2024/05]    1 paper is accepted by ACL 2024 Findings.
  • [2024/04]   πŸ”₯πŸ”₯πŸ”₯ We are thrilled to present πŒπšπ π’πœπ“π’π¦πž, a metamorphic time-lapse video generation model and a new dataset ChronoMagic, support U-Net or DiT-based T2V frameworks. GitHub Repo stars
  • [2024/01]    1 paper is accepted by ICLR 2024.
  • [2023/11]   πŸ”₯πŸ”₯πŸ”₯ We release a GitHub repository to promote medical Large Language Models research with the vision of applying LLM to real-life medical scenarios: GitHub Repo stars A Practical Guide for Medical Large Language Models.
  • [2023/11]   πŸ”₯πŸ”₯πŸ”₯ How could LMMs contribute to social good? We are excited to release a new preliminary explorations of GPT-4V(ison) for social multimedia: GPT-4V(ision) as A Social Media Analysis Engine.
  • [2023/09]   Join the VIStA Lab as a Ph.D. student working on vision and language.
  • [2023/07]   1 paper is accepted by ACMMM 2023.
  • [2023/05]   I was awarded the 2023 Peking University Excellent Graduation Thesis.
  • [2023/04]   1 paper is accepted by TIP 2023.
  • [2023/04]   1 paper is accepted by IJCAI 2023.
  • [2023/02]   1 paper (Top 10% Highlight) is accepted by CVPR 2023.
  • [2022/09]   1 paper is accepted by ICRA 2023.
  • [2022/09]   1 paper (Spotlight) is accepted by NeurIPS 2022.

  • Education

    University of Rochester (UR), USA
    PH.D. Student in Computer Science      • Sep. 2023 - Present
    Advisor: Prof. Jiebo Luo

    Peking University (PKU), China
    Master Degree in Computer Science      • Sep. 2020 - Jun. 2023
    Advisors: Prof. Li Yuan and Prof. Jie Chen

    University of Electronic Science and Technology of China (UESTC), China
    Bachelor Degree in Software Engineering      • Sep. 2016 - Jun. 2020
    Advisors: Prof. Xucheng Luo

    Research Experience

    Core ML Applied ML, Google, USA
    Student Research       • Jan. 2025 - Now
    Advisors:   Jiageng Zhang and Dr. Eric Li.

    Seed-Foundation-Model, ByteDance
    Research Intern       • May. 2024 - Aug. 2024
    Advisors:   Dr. Quanzeng You & Dr. Yongfei Liu & Dr. Jianbo Yuan

    Artificial Intelligence Center, Pengcheng Lab
    Research Intern       • Sep. 2020 - Aug. 2022
    Advisors:   Dr. Guoli Song & Prof. Jie Chen

    Multimedia Computing Team, KDDI Research
    Research Intern       • Nov. 2019 - Feb. 2020
    Advisors:   Dr. Yanan Wang & Dr. Jianming Wu

    X-Data Research Group, Tencent IEG
    Engineering Intern       • Jan. 2019 - Jul. 2019
    Advisors:   Boya Yin & Dr. Yang Chao

    Selected Publication

    My current research mainly focuses on the vision+language, generative model. *Equal Contribution.

    MagicTime: Time-lapse Video Generation Models as Metamorphic Simulators
    Shenghai Yuan*, Jinfa Huang*, Yujun Shi, Yongqi Xu, Ruijie Zhu, Bin Lin, Xinhua Cheng, Li Yuan, Jiebo Luo
    IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, TPAMI 2025
    (Github Repo 1300+ Stars🌟)
    [Paperlink], [Code], [Page], GitHub Repo stars
    Area: Text-to-Video Generation, Diffusion Model, Time-lapse Videos

    Existing text-to-video generation models have not adequately encoded physical knowledge of the real world, thus generated videos tend to have limited motion and poor variations. In this paper, we propose MagicTime, a metamorphic time-lapse video generation model, which learns real-world physics knowledge from time-lapse videos and implements metamorphic video generation.

    Video-Text as Game Players: Hierarchical Banzhaf Interaction for Cross-Modal Representation Learning
    Peng Jin, Jinfa Huang, Pengfei Xiong, Shangxuan Tian, Chang Liu, Xiangyang Ji, Li Yuan, Jie Chen
    IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, CVPR 2023
    (Highlight, Top 2.5%)
    [Paperlink], [Code], [Page], GitHub Repo stars
    Area: Video-and-Language Representation, Machine Learning, Video-Text Retrieval, Video Captioning

    To solve the problem of the modality gap in video-text feature space, we propose Expectation-Maximization Contrastive Learning (EMCL) to learn compact video-and-language representations. We use the Expectation-Maximization algorithm to find a compact set of bases for the latent space, where the features could be concisely represented as the linear combinations of these bases.

    Expectation-Maximization Contrastive Learning for Compact Video-and-Language Representations
    Peng Jin*, Jinfa Huang*, Fenglin Liu, Xian Wu, Shen Ge, Guoli Song, David A. Clifton, Jie Chen
    Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems, NeurIPS 2022
    (Spotlight Presentation, Top 5%)
    [Paperlink], [Code], GitHub Repo stars
    Area: Video-and-Language Representation, Machine Learning, Video-Text Retrieval, Video Captioning

    To solve the problem of the modality gap in video-text feature space, we propose Expectation-Maximization Contrastive Learning (EMCL) to learn compact video-and-language representations. We use the Expectation-Maximization algorithm to find a compact set of bases for the latent space, where the features could be concisely represented as the linear combinations of these bases.

    Selected Honors & Scholarships

  • OpenAI Researcher Access Program, OpenAI  2025
  • Peking University Excellent Graduation Thesis (Top 10%), PKU  2023
  • Outstanding Graduate of University of Electronic Science and Technology of China (UESTC),  2020
  • Selected entrant for Google Machine Learning Winter Camp 2019 (100 people worldwide),  2019
  • National Inspirational Scholarship,  2018
  • China Collegiate Programming Contest (ACM-CCPC), Jilin, Bronze,  2018

  • Talk

  • "Can Video Generation Models as World Simulators?β€œ, 3D视觉ε·₯坊, 2025.01, [Live]

  • Teaching

  • Teaching Assistant, CSC 240/440 Data Mining, Prof. Thaddeus E. Pawlicki, University of Rochester, 2025 Spring
  • Teaching Assistant, CSC 240/440 Data Mining, Prof. Monika Polak, University of Rochester, 2024 Fall

  • Personal Interests

    Anime: As a pastime in my spare time, I watched a lot of Japanese anime about love, sports, and sci-fi.

    Literature: My favorite writer is Xiaobo Wang, the wisdom of his life inspires me. My favorite philosopher is Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, and I am grateful that his philosophy has accompanied me through many difficult times in my life.

    Academic Service

  • PC Member:   CVPR'23/24/25, NeurIPS'22/23/25, ICLR'23/24/25, ICCV'23/25, ACM MM'24/25, ECCV'24, AAAI'25, COLM'25, ACL'25, CVEU 2025 Workshop (CVPR'25)
  • Journal Reviewer:   IEEE TCSVT, IEEE TPAMI, NEJM AI


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